OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:2211

Info

OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2211
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2001-0113
CVE-2001-0114
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 15 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 04:46AM
Credit: Discovered and posted to Bugtraq by [email protected] on Jan 15, 2001.
Vulnerable: Omnicron OmniHTTPD 2.0.7
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability

OmniHTTPD is a compact Windows based web server by Omnicron Technologies. OmniHTTPD has various features including multiple domain support, keep-alive connections, supports virtual IP and non-IP servers and standard CGI support.

Due to the implementation of 'statsconfig.pl' multiple vulnerabilities exist in OmniHTTPD. It is possible to corrupt various known filenames and execute arbitrary commands. By appending a known filename to the 'cgidir' form variable accompanied with a null argument, the known filename will be corrupt. In addition, it is possible to execute commands on the target server. This is due to statsconfig.pl creating a perl script on the file. When the perl script is created, user supplied data (the mostbrowsers form variable if it is present) is written directly to the perl script file. If an attacker sets this value to semi-colon separated perl commands, they will be executed when statsconfig runs the script. This can result in an attacker gaining interactive access on the victim host with the privilege level of the webserver/cgi process.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to complete comprimise of the host or denial of service.

Exploit / POC

OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability

The following exploit has been provided by [email protected]:

Solution / Fix

OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability

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OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability

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